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No. 229,360. Patentedlu ne 29,1880.

V NFEIERS. PHOTD-UTNOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLEMENT B. BISHOP, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BRACELET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 229,360, dated June 29, 1880.

Application filed February.9, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLEMENT B. BISHOP, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Bracelets, of which the ibllowing is a specification.

My invention consists of a bracelet provided with lockin g mechanism constructed and combined with the hinged segments of the braceletin the peculiar manner fully described hereafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis an exterior view of my improved bracelet; Fig. 2, a sectional view, drawn to an enlarged scale, of the end portions of the two parts of the bracelet, and Fig. 3 sections on the line 1 2.

The bracelet consists of two parts, A A,

hinged together at a, each part consisting, in the present instance, of a round tube bent to appropriate shape.

Into the end of the part A of the bracelet is inserted a portion of the spring-catch B, the butt of the latter being secured in place by a pin or rivet, b. The extreme end of the portion A of the bracelet is closed, wit-h the exception of a slot for admitting the springcatch and permitting it to move to a limited extent in the direct-ion of v the arrow, Fig. 3.

A socket, e, is formed by an external rib, f, in the extreme end of the portion A of the bracelet for receiving the end of the portion A, the opening into the interior of the part A being sufficiently large to admit the pointed projecting portion of the spring-catch B, and to permit it to yield to a limited extent before the shoulder h of the catch takes its place behind the shoulder i in the portion A when the two parts of the bracelet are brought together, the end of the part A entering the socket 6 before the catch takes effect.

In the portion A of the bracelet there is a key-hole, m, into which projects a pin, a, the latter crossing the space which admits the spring'catch.

A key, M, is adapted to the key-hole and to the pin a, there being such a projection on the key that on turning the same the said projection will bear against the end of the springcatch and move it away from the internal shoulder 6, thereby unlocking the bracelet.

The key M is suspended by a small chain, 12, to the portion A, and constitutes an attractive pendent ornament for the bracelet.

I do not desire to claim, broadly, the com- CLEMENT B. BISHOP.

Witnesses:

STEPHEN PELL, J. O. MoOLYMoNT. 

